A day in the life of LIFE

What would you wish to do when you are loaded with work at office and know you are fighting a challenging battle against time? Or, you’ve just been dumped by your girlfriend and feel that the rest of the “buri duniya” is plotting to get rid of you?Worse even, you’ve just come out of a casino with no money left but for a hundred odd rupees, that can’t help you do much?

Lo behold! You are in the perfect condition to go watch the latest flick of Tinsel town – “ Lagey Raho Munna Bhai”.

After much deliberation, and mustering a feeble strength of 3 fellow cinema watchers, my movie watching plan was almost in jeopardy and with the movie running to packed houses, I was heading towards the cinema hall with no tickets in my pocket.

But India, the land of opportunity that it is, gives you a hundred options to choose from, when you ask for just one. And banking on this, I pulled out my 1898 make “bike” [past references to the “Kinetic Honda”] and set out to have my dose of laughter therapy.

Adding to the fervor of the day was the fact that September 7, after all the controversies that it got itself in, still marks the Centenary celebrations of the National Song of India, “Vande Mataram”. This song has been sung in so many myriad tunes that each new one refreshes the message and the effect of the lyrics on the audience, and this movie captured this song in one of the better renditions by Shantanu Moitra - "Bandhe mein tha Dum, Vande Mataram !".

The star cast is almost the same with the minor exception of Vidya Balan, who adds an extra layer of beauty each time she acts in a movie. [Yes, I was bowled over by her performance in Parineeta]. Including the dhobis and their characteristic dhobi ghat coupled with the “Rampuri” brandishing “Circuit” and the protagonist - the heart of gold wala tapori - Sanju Baaba all gel with the movie and have a great chemistry. Bomman as usual, masters his role in the plot of being the thorn in the foot.

Not many times can you have a comedy genre movie with a moral, but then lagey Raho scores a 100 percent in this department, by involving Baapu Mahatama Gandhi under the famous banner of “Gandhigiri versus Gundagiri”.

A phenomenally refreshing movie and a must watch for all the Indian people “bole to” for all those who feel “desh ki waat lag rahi hai” oops “ desh ki durgati ho rey li hai Maamu”.

The only pangs of guilt that I had after watching the movie were that I bought the tickets in black for almost double the price, which is against the principle of “Gandhigiri”.

But, looking at the brighter side, it helped a poor fellow Indian to buy his daily quota of roti, kapda aur…. daroo?? – Keep rocking Munna Bhai, apun abhi katlera hai :)